Parpi ( hy, Փարպի) is a village in the

Aragatsotn Province Aragatsotn ( hy, Արագածոտն, ) is a province ('' marz'') of Armenia. It is located in the western part of the country. The capital and largest city of the province is the town of Ashtarak. The Statistical Committee of Armenia reported ...

Armenia Armenia (), , group=pron officially the Republic of Armenia,, is a landlocked country in the Armenian Highlands of Western Asia.The UNbr>classification of world regions places Armenia in Western Asia; the CIA World Factbook , , and ''Ox ...

. It is home to the 5th-century Tsiranavor Church, with 7th- and 10th-century modifications. There is also S. Grigor or S. Grigor Lusavorich (''Gregory the Illuminator'') Church and the 7th-century (rebuilt 10th-11th century) Targmanchats (''Holy Translator'') Church located in a medieval-modern cemetery on a hill to the east. Nearby is a cave with a working door, used as a place of refuge between the 16th and 18th centuries.

History

The 5th- to 6th-century Armenian

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and

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Ghazar Parpetsi Ghazar Parpetsi ( hy, Ղազար Փարպեցի, translit=Łazar P῾arpec῾i) was a 5th to 6th century Armenian chronicler and historian. He had close ties with the powerful Mamikonian noble family and is most prominent for writing a history of ...

was born at Parpi in AD 442. He is recognized for writing ''History of Armenia'', sometime in the early 6th century. Parpi is known to have had a brief visit during October 1734 by

Abraham Kretatsi Catholicos Abraham III (also Abraham of Crete or Abraham Kretatsi d. 1737) was the Catholicos of the Armenian Apostolic Church between 1734 and 1737. Born in Heraklion, Crete, to a Greek mother, he was bishop of Rodosto, Thrace and then Armenian p ...

during the time while he was serving the Catholicos Abraham II. He wrote: The village is also mentioned in a 13th-century inscription on the southern wall of the Katoghike Church of the Astvatsnkal Monastery built between the 5th and 13th centuries in the village of

Hartavan Hartavan ( hy, Հարթավան, also Romanized as Hart’avan and Artavan; formerly, Karakilisa and Ghara-Kilisa) is a town in the Aragatsotn Province of Armenia. In Hartavan was born Rafik Khachatryan (1937–1993). See also *Aragatsotn Prov ...

. It reads as follows:

Gallery

Image:Փարպիի Թարգմանչաց եկեղեցի11.JPG, Targmanchats Church, 7th century Image:Փարպիի Ծիրանավոր եկեղեցի1.JPG, Tsiranavor Church, 5th century Image:Փարպիի Ծիրանավոր եկեղեցի14.JPG, Tsiranavor Church, 5th century Image:Փարպիի Ս. Գրիգոր Լուսավորիչ1.JPG, S. Grigor Lusavorich Church File:Parpi stadium 11.09.2013.jpg, Parpi Stadium opened in 2013

References

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World Gazetteer: Armenia
– World-Gazetteer.com
Report of the results of the 2001 Armenian Census

Bibliography

* Kiesling, ''Rediscovering Armenia'', pp. 15, available online at th
US embassy to Armenia's website

External links

Populated places in Aragatsotn Province {{Aragatsotn-geo-stub